Your game and your results may not be closely correlated in the short run, but in the long-run they are completely related. In any given match or tournament, the rolls may be against you, and you could lose even when you are the favorite. So remain patient, keep playing YOUR game, and your time will come.

The health of your game is always at risk. If you adopt a poorly conceived technique or one that is not suited to YOUR game, it could lead to a lengthy slump or even threaten your career. So, before changing some aspect of your game, remember that no advice is better than bad advice.

There are a 1,001 secrets to playing great pool, and the more of them that you add to your game, the stronger it becomes. When you implement A Big Secret, you could experience a quantum leap forward in your game. But just remember that that secret is only A Big Secret. THE Big Secret is that there is no single big secret – that any player’s game is the sum of the many secrets that they have accumulated over the course of their career.

Happy New Year to my fellow pool enthusiasts - and welcome to the new version of billiardspress.com

On this site I will be sharing ideas that can help you to improve your game in concert with other social media, including my pages at Facebook friends and at Twitter. 

Subscribers to Pool and Billiard Magazine should check out the January 2013 issue, which includes my 200th column. It covers three pages and is all about how to Play YOUR Best Pool - with an emphasis on YOU.

To celebrate #200 I will, during January only, be offering  super specials on individual copies, and even bigger savings on packages of my books. As a bonus, all orders shipped within the USA will get FREE SHIPPING.

Here's wishing you a year of great pool in 2013!!!

Phil Capelle